Author: Touraj Riazi

Touraj is an accomplished multi-lingual professional with 5 years of strategy, policy, stakeholder engagement, communication, issue, and project management experience across diverse sectors in areas like transformative technologies, digital and data transformation, diplomacy, defence and global economics. As a graduate of Sciences Po, he is committed to learning more, developing public-private partnerships and applying his creativity, intellectual excellence, and passion for technology towards improving our shared digital future, as demonstrated when advising Ontario’s President of the Treasury Board, Minister Responsible for Digital and Data Transformation, Minister of Finance and as a manager for Ontario's first A. Minister Responsible for Digital Government. Touraj can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/touraj-riazi-85722b141/
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5 Differences Between Trump and Obama’s NATO Speeches

Obama’s final speech to NATO came in Warsaw 2016 after the Warsaw Summit had concluded. The speech’s length, around 12 minutes, was roughly similar to the length of Trump’s speech, but the similarities quickly end here. Despite addressing some common topics, the manner in which each President decided to address these topics draws attention to Read More…
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5 Reasons Why Upcoming US Interceptor Test Affects American Deterrence

On May 30th 2017, America will test its Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system (GMD) against a target designed to simulate an ICBM attack against the continental United States for the first time. This test occurs against a backdrop of growing worries relating to North Korea’s nuclear program and their active attempts to procure an ICBM capable Read More…